From Caregivers to Social Reformers
Directing physicians to treat their patients as racial statistics rather than an individuals is a grievous misdirection of their skills.
Ronald A. Lindsay
· 12 min read
Health
A collection of 220 posts
The Cass Effect
A landmark report properly emphasises the application of science, not slogans, in establishing treatment protocols for trans-identified children.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 14 min read
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Covid Pandemic
Overselling Covid vaccines during the pandemic has backfired and played into the hands of the anti-vaccine movement.
Roger Bate
· 10 min read
Will the New Vaccine Help Eradicate Malaria?
The malaria vaccine may well help reduce deaths, but we should not exaggerate its efficacy.
Roger Bate
· 7 min read
Intelligence and Health Outcomes
The importance of cognitive ability to disparities in human health is being overlooked.
Robert J. Morris
· 9 min read
How Australian Law Pushes Vulnerable Women Towards Hiring Male Carers
The law prioritises a man’s sense of his identity over women’s safety, bodily integrity, privacy, dignity, and comfort.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 9 min read
Podcast #225: Finding Strength Through Disability
Quillette editor and podcast host Iona Italia talks with speaker, DJ, and quadruple amputee Tom Nash about his new book, ‘Hook, Line, and Sinner.’
Quillette, Iona Italia
· 2 min read
The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash
“The deep end is the best place to learn to swim.”
Iona Italia
· 19 min read
Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health
A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 20 min read
Ending the Hunger Games
New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat.
Iona Italia
· 25 min read
Unconscious Bias in Medicine: A Canard
Evidence that clinical decisions are driven by unconscious bias remains conspicuously lacking.
Stewart Justman
· 8 min read
Medications Can Help Keep Alcoholics Sober. Why Are They Being Ignored?
Affordable, safe, generic anticonvulsants restore homeostasis to the brains of chronic drinkers, but they are not being promoted.
Frank Celia
· 6 min read
Faith Goes to Switzerland
When should we allow a person to hasten her own death?
Brent M. Kious, Margaret Pabst Battin
· 24 min read
Neuroaffirmation—A Therapist’s Concerns
I worry about the unintended consequences of the neurodiversity movement, particularly when their demands are promulgated religiously and without nuance.
Rita Range
· 10 min read
The Limits of Self Love
Scholars and activists in the field of fat studies do not believe that there is an obesity-related health crisis at all.
Jack Butler
· 12 min read